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Wikipedia: The Oregon boundary dispute, or the Oregon Question, arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Pacific Northwest of North America in the first half of the 19th century. Both the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (USA) had territorial and commercial aspirations in the region as well as residual claims from treaties with Russia and Spain. The British knew the region as the Columbia District, a fur-trading division of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), while Americans referred to it as the Oregon Country.
![[An undated map showing the detached territory option proposed by the British, with the Olympic Peninsula as part...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/OrBoundaryMapDetached_s.jpg "An undated map showing the detached territory option proposed by the British, with the Olympic Peninsula as part...")
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![[An 1841 American map showing the 54°40′ line near [[Fort Simpson, British Columbia]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/1841_map_of_the_Oregon_Territory_s.jpg "An 1841 American map showing the 54°40′ line near [[Fort Simpson, British Columbia")
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![[An 1846 map showing the 49th parallel as the boundary through Vancouver Island]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/1846_Oregon_territory_s.jpg "An 1846 map showing the 49th parallel as the boundary through Vancouver Island")
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